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What is another word for not telling the truth?

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Verb
Present participle for to tell an untruth or falsehood
lying
fibbing
fabricating
prevaricating
dissimulating
deceiving
deluding
falsifying
misleading
bluffing
exaggerating
misrepresenting
conning
dissembling
equivocating
hoaxing
hoodwinking
misinforming
perjuring
pretending
beguiling
duping
misguiding
misspeaking
misstating
tricking
bulling
capping
distorting
forswearing
fudging
gaslighting
misinstructing
overdrawing
paltering
perverting
snowing
telling a falsehood
telling an untruth
concocting a story
departing from the truth
stretching the truth
stringing along
telling a lie
telling stories
bearing false witness
breaking promise
committing perjury
faking it
forswearing oneself
having on
making up a story
perjuring oneself
putting on the wrong track
saying something untrue
telling untruths
throwing off the scent
inventing a story
putting on
putting up a front
sending on a wild goose chase
telling a terminological inexactitude
leading astray
BSing
telling a white lie
lacking candor
giving the wrong impression
faking
feigning
inventing
concocting
jiving
kidding
planting
trumping up
making up
telling a fib
creating fiction
speaking with forked tongue
telling a little white lie
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
pulling someone's leg
fooling
misdirecting
bamboozling
snookering
suckering
cozening
buffaloing
burning
sucking in
doing a number on
faking out
taking for a ride
leading on
taking in
leading up the garden path
forging
simulating
hatching
scamming
disinforming
telling untruth
swindling
bilking
hosing
telling lies
shafting
inveigling
cheating
hornswoggling
gaffing
creating out of thin air
defrauding
outfoxing
having
humbugging
spoofing
propagandizingUS
gammoning
juggling
betraying
mousetrapping
outwitting
giving someone a bum steer
spinning a yarn
gulling
baiting
lying to
propagandisingUK
victimisingUK
covering up
pulling one's leg
putting up smoke screen
ripping off
putting on an act
giving wrong information to
catching
ensnaring
pulling a swifty on
leading down the garden path
double-crossing
pulling a fast one on
putting on false front
wrong steering
victimizingUS
roping in
dreaming up
conjuring up
entrapping
taking advantage of
playing for a sucker
diddling
lying under oath
swearing falsely
illuding
devising
rooking
bunking
overreaching
playing trick on
putting one over on
enmeshing
entangling
leading up garden path
imposing on
“The Liberal Party will vote against this bill, because it has no confidence in this government, which is not telling the truth and is trying to scam Canadians.”
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